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From a Buick 8 is a novel
by horror writer Stephen King (ISBN
0-7432-1137-5). Published on September 24, 2002, this is the second novel by Stephen King to feature
a supernatural car (the first one being Christine, which like this novel is set in Pennsylvania); King's short
story "Trucks" also involved paranormal
events involving vehicles. According to the book sleeve: "From a Buick 8
is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on
answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the
unknowable." The title comes from Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6". Award winning independent
publisher Cemetery Dance Publications
published a signed Limited Edition of the book in 2002.
Stephen King says that he was inspired to write this book on a car trip he
took in 1999. During the trip he stopped at
a gas station in western Pennsylvania. While looking around he slipped and
almost fell into a stream of water. The thought that he might not have been
discovered until a much later time, led him to the plot of the story. In the
novel King describes a fatal automobile accident, and coincidentally King
himself was the victim of a bad accident that almost killed him late in 1999.
However, he said that he did not change any of the details in the novel to match
his accident.
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Major themes
The main theme of the book is that there will
always be things in this world that we will never fully understand. The most
obvious example of this is the Buick itself. We never learn where it came from,
who the mysterious man that dropped it off was, or why it was even sent here in
the first place. In the text, Sandy likens it to God - no one will ever know his plans, no one can ever make
sense of them. Ned becomes frustrated as he learns the tale, as he wants
explanations, and Sandy explains to him and to us in the narrative that there
are no answers when it comes to the Buick. Even Curt Wilcox, Ned's Father who
was so fascinated with the Buick, comes to give up on trying to pry the answers
from it.
Another theme is the passage of legacy from Father to Son. Curt latches onto the Buick
in a way that none of the other Troops do. He focuses on it, tries to learn from
it. His son Ned feels the same, which is why he makes the attempt to destroy it.
When Ned reveals that he believes that the Buick will one day fall apart, Sandy
comments that Ned looks truly happy to him for the first time. What the Father
started, the Son finished.
Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
There is talk of a movie adaptation of this book. At the helm is veteran
director George A.
Romero, who also directed another Stephen King adaptation, The Dark Half. The film
has a possible 2007
release. The screenplay was written by Richard Chizmar, founder of Cemetery Dance Publications, and Johnathon Schaech,
star of the Tom Hanks film,
That Thing You
Do.
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